It's too early for you to have seen the morning news programs but there's building discussion that politics has got to be more civil. (Duh, what took them so long?) Months prior to the elections, Palin's camp released a map of the U.S. with targeted Dems in crosshairs. Giffords and others spoke up about the danger of inciting an unstable mind. Time passed. Tuscon happened. This map with the crosshairs has surfaced.

I'm not saying or implying that Palin had anything to do with what happened, just that there is discussion about reigning in the political rhetoric.

Otherwise, it's verrrry cold outside, hub's down with the flu, and warm memories of Hawaii shimmer.

Tao With Me

TAO 61: A great nation flows downward into intercourse with the world. The female of the world always prevails over the male by stillness. Because stillness is considered lower, by lowering itself to a small nation a great nation takes a small nation; by being lower than a great nation a small nation takes a great nation. So one takes by lowering itself, another takes place by being lower. A great nation wants no more than to include and nurture people; a small nation wants no more than to admit and serve people. Both get what they want, so the great should be below.translated from the Tao Te Ching, Thomas CLeary